Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an action to recover sums paid to settle a wrongful death action against Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, brought by the heirs of one Leon Pettus. Pettus, an employee of defendant Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of defendant Pacific Gas and Electric Company, * was killed while working on a pole owned jointly by P. G. & E. and Pacific Telephone Company. The sole issue on appeal is whether P. G. & E. is obliged to indemnify Pacific Telephone under the terms of…